Mystaria In this walkthrough, it will be included also the guide for the maze of trials, since that other gamefaqs have only mentioned it: the other users who have submitted their gamefaq haven’t cleared this dungeon. The first battle will be against Lord Bane. It’s a battle that you can’t win, so just use def. The group will survive and Rayko, who has been saved by Ferral, will join you after seeing Lord Bane to kill also his own troops. Stage: forest What to do: the objective is simple, you must kill the enemies and flee from the forest reaching the northern part of the stage. Juza and his followers will catch you and your group will have to fight against him. Continue to use defensive moves, it’s another battle that you can’t win. Stage: dungeon of the aragon’s castle After talking with Lord Bane, Aletha and Katzhai will free you and they will join your group. What to do: kill the enemies, open the treasures on the southwest map and go towards the northern door to escape from Juza, who at that point will appear. Don’t try to open door which contains the other treasures, it can’t be opened yet, you will the have the occasion of opening them later in the game. Items found: 2 heals Now that your group’s escaped from the castle, Aragon decides to visit Vargaas, the old wise man who lives at the top of burgeon mountain to get tips. Go northwest to find the mountain. Stage: mountain burgeon What to do: it’s important that your group must be united to face this stage, use ptc shd and defensive moves when you can’t attack the enemies. About reptens, wait they attack you if they’re near to you to avoid their crt move when you attack them. Reached the top, you will meet Vargaas who will tell you that other five warriors are needed to defeat Lord Bane. So, you must look for other five warriors while you explore Mystaria. You can start at exploring almost any zone of Mystaria, in fact you can find the other warriors in any order you want;however this is the order I recommend: From Queensheart, go west to find the Sibone town, it’s exactly at south of burgeon mountain. You can’t enter in the city yet, because the Bane’s troops have been invading it, so you must first kill them. What to do: you must just kill the enemies, but have both the archers in your group because the most of enemies whom you will encounter in this area are archers, use ptc shd as always and use defensive moves when you can’t attack them. After killing all of them, you can enter in the city.Read the billboard, go in the bar and talk to the bartender, read the billboard again, talk to bartender again so that he will sign a post on the billboard about you would like meet him. Read the billboard another time and exit from the city. Stage: meeting Hawk What to do: dispose of the enemies quickly and you will meet Hawk. Aragon will propose to Hawk of joining his group to defeat Bane together, but he will refuse because he want kill him alone, so he leaves. Stage: inside the castle dungeon What to do: get the items inside the treasures and go upstairs. Items found: Mana +1, sorcerer, T. Claw, Light B., Spengen, and Heal +1. Now you must safe hawk by the enemies, so kill them quickly. Don’t bother to opening the doors because they can’t be opened yet. After saving him, Hawk will join your group and he will reveal its true name, Galford.Now,from sibone, head to west to reach the dragoon country. You could meet some banditswhen you cross the border. Enter in Zarma, if you want to go shopping but it’s not necessary. Your goal is to enter in the dragon castle pillaged by the enemies inside it. In the castle, you will notice a young knight dragoon who is fighting against the enemies. He is your new second member and he has the ability to morphing himself into a dragon. He is definitively the most powerful character in the game when he’s a dragon. Kill the enemies and reach the staircase. Reached the first floor, you will fall into a trap prepared by Selene, one of the Bane’s five leaders. So your group will be kept captive in the castle’s dungeon but Ashe who has been told by Selene of bringing water to the cellar guard. The task is not so simple as it seems, in fact you will have to avoid the guards who will try to bar the way and if you will be hit by one of them, you will spill some water. If you spill some water for two times, you will have redo the task from the scratch. Press C-button on them to check how far they can walk, go beyond their “radius action”, and play carefully your moves. In the dungeon, open the chest containing the wine, talk to the guard who will want to drink the wine. Hewill drink it so eagerly that he will be drunk and fall asleep and you will can free your friends taking the guard’s keys. Stage: battle with Selene What to do: first of facing Selene, get the items below unless that you’ve already taken them with Ashe, kill first all the other enemies using ptc shd, healing when necessary and using defensive moves when you can’t attack them, then do the same when you fight Selene. Items found: w-killer, w-shoes, r.leg, m. piece Now go to south from the dragon castle, and soon you will find to left the entrance of a forest, named Spirit Forest. Stage: Spirit Forest What to do: kill the enemies with the usual strategy and get the items. Items found: Herbert, Paradin, Paper Now back to Queensheart and from there go to east beyond the border to reach the Rossam region. Enter in the Kolbe village if you need to buy something, otherwise continue to south and you will find soon to right the ingress of another forest, named Ingress Forest, it’s not a joke. Stage: Ingress Forest What to do: kill the enemies with the habitual manner and get the items. About gales, they can become invisible and when they’re in this state, you can damage them only with magic attacks or let aletha use magic eye if she’slearned that technique, then attack them normally. Items found: D-knife, Pacopaco and B.Orb Now that your group has got weapons with dark proprieties, you’re ready to enter in the Mild Tower and find your next warrior. Go south and turn left to reach the tower. Inside the tower, there are monsters who can’t be attacked normally, in fact they can be damaged only by magic attacks, weapons and attack techniques with dark proprieties. Stage: mild Tower What to do: equip Aragon with the Paradin, Rayko with D-knife and Ferral with Herbert and Kathzai should have the doom strike as ninja t. After this preparation, use the usual strategy and you shouldn’t have problems. Reached the top, there will be nobody, so step on the circle which will teleport you outside from the tower. At this point, one sorcerer will appear and he will become your new warrior. Zereth will ask you a favour, he want your help to find an item hidden in the ruins, but first of satisfying his request, it’s better going somewhere else. Now, go west, exceed the border and you will enter in the Mydi region. Enter in the city at south, named Ortoma, and talk to the bartender who will ask you if you could get rid of pirates who have been vexing the city. Accept and take zereth and don’t take Ashe if you want a real challenge, but if you’re worried about the things could become too tough, then select him. Your ship will be attacked by the pirate ship thinking that your ship is a cargo ship, just as planned previously by Aragon. Stage: fighting the pirates What to do: use the strategy of always and as soon as you will defeat the lady corsair, the battle will finish, so if you want more experience, kill first the other pirates. Before that the pirates retreat, your group will sneak in their ship and you will find yourself on an isle. Stage: deserted isle What to do: use the usual strategy +mgc shield, use zereth’s magic attacks, while saura should focus into healing the group, occupy the place from the reinforcements arrive, and get the items with levitation or with Ashe if you have chosen him. As last thing, to go on and destroy the rocks; it’s not necessary to destroy all of them, two is enough. These rocks could be impervious to most your attacks, so use doom strike, drg flame and magic attacks. Items found: mana +1, m. piece, h-glove, holycrown Now, you must move Fiona and open simply the treasures which contain precious gems, you can’t miss them. After that, Fiona and your group will fight together to defeat the soldiers who have been occupying the Barracuda. After defeating the enemies, you can back to Mydy area. Enter in ortoma and talk to the bartender who will give you 10.000 gems as reward. What to do: have I to say what to do?It’s time to find the last warrior. Enter in the ruins whose zereth had been talking about. Stage: ruins ground floor What to do: these type of monsters are weak against the holy or dark properties, so use the right weapons, technique attacks and magic. About the birds, see the section concerning the gale on how defeat them. Beside these informations, use the usual strategy and get the items. Items found: m. piece, lunhaim, aqua Stage: ruins first underground floor What to do: you will face Helius, another leader of the banes army, he is not difficult, but first of killing him, try to get the items, otherwise you will can get them later. Stage: ruins second underground floor In this area, one of the treasure contains the item whom zereth has been searching. So kill all the enemies and open the treasures to make him happy. Items found: light, G.orb, D- fang Now that your group is completed, Aragon decides to visit vargaas, but zereth leaves the group saying he have to do a very important thing . Your group is sent automatically at the top of mountain, vargaas sees you’re only eleven, aragon tells him that the legendary sorcerer had to left, so the wiseman decides to join your group temporally. Now that vargaas is your side, you can fly over mystaria, in fact pressing the A-button it will appear the white ray, a legendary creature who will take you everywhere you want. So, use the white ray and from Queensheart fly to west and land on a little isle with a cave. Inside it, there’s a hidden passage leading to the castle, the perfect method to break into. Have hawk in your group. Stage. Grottos cave What to do: kill the enemies, get the items, activate the switch and go in the next area Items found: Heal +2, Spell, Blind, Bamboo In the next area there will be a monster spider as boss, steal the mega strike and face death technique to the monster, kill it, get the items and open the door to break into the castle Items found: Moon S., master Stage: castle dungeon again What to do: the enemies must be killed very quickly here, because there’s a poisonous gas which damages your group every turn and as usual take the items and go upstairs. Items found: Knight, Darkness, Holy, Illusion, M. stone, Holy In the next area, kill all the enemies and occupy the place from the reinforcements arrive so that you can get the items with calm and go upstairs on the east side. Items found: m. stone, 3 mana, c. mind, wing 1, heal +2 Stage: fight against Juza and Lord Bane! It’s not a difficult battle if you’re cautious and use the usual strategy and don’t forget to use Hawk to steal the hell fire technique to Lord Bane.But the battle is not over because the Bane whom you’ve defeated wasn’t the real Bane. After talking with rastigan and receiving some informations about the crystals in the forests, you will be out from the castle.Now from ortoma, go to north and enter in the city named Natis. Read the billboard, enter into the house to right and talk to the woman twice. She will ask you to rescue her daughter who has been kidnapped by a religious cult hiding into a castle situated on a hill. Use the white ray, and land near to the castle located at north-east of the city. Stage: castle ground floor What to do: The team decides to split itself, so initially play very carefully whereas you fight enemies and take the items. Afterward the group is reunited, go downstairs. Items found: Dream, Mana+1 Stage. castle first underground floor What to do: kill the enemies and open other two treasures and go deeper Items found: wisemen, amlita Stage: fighting the leader of the cult What to do: kill him and you will free the girl, her name is Millidi. Back in the city, talk with the girl’s mother. Enter in the house, talk and exit a couple of times until that you get 10.000 gems as reward and a good -luck-charm. Now reach the central part of Mystaria with the white ray, you will notice a cloud surrounding the entrance of the forest, so put yourself where there’s the hole and land. Stage: Mysterious forest What to do: kill enemies, take the items and enter in the dungeon. Stage: inside the dungeon What to do: to reach the exit, you must sink and lift some platforms, it’s not so difficult, after a few tries, you will figure the right sequence, about enemies it’s time to use hell fire, and take the the items. Items found: Warrior, Comet, Exorcism, Moon Stone, Wing, Mana +2, Dark, and Mana +2 Now it’s turn of moving the lonely Galford. Open the treasures whom he finds and follow this sequence: up, right, right, down, down, right, up, right and it will appear a fairy who’s been waiting for you. It’s left also a thing to do first of entering into Quixotica. So, fly to west to reach the city Battlum, the legendary battle city, it’s near to the spirit forest. Here you can buy some weapons which aren’t sold anywhere. You will notice the entrance to a dungeon,it’s called Maze of trials. It’s an optional dungeon and it’s the longest and the most difficult of all the game, no doubt about this. In my opinion, it’s worth to explore all of it because some items you can find are really great and unique; furthermore the final battle will be much more easier with these items (even if the battle itself is not so difficult by default).you could have visited the dungeon as soon as you could fly obviously, but it would have been almost suicide, meanwhile now your party’s members should have the right equipment,the right magic attacks, the right attacks techniques and the right levels to clear it. However it’s up to you if try it or not. I use these characters: Rayko, Vargaas, Hawk, Aletha,Saura and Ashe. Their level should be 25 or above except for Ashe because his dragon form is so powerful that he could be under 25 without problems. Rayko should be equipped with: Comet, Spengen, Dragon, Aqua and D. Fang.He should have NINJA T until Charge strike. He should have HTH T until spin kick Vargaas should be equipped with: Sorcerer, Wisemen, Magic- G and B. Orb He should have ATK T until helfre, whereas he should have HOLY T until holy avg and SPC T until mgc shd. Hawk should be equipped with: Exorcism, Warrior,Knight, Holy and P. stone. He should have BOW T until dth stm.He should have STEAL T until steal T Aletha should be equipped with: Light, Sorcerer, Pretty, H. Glove and C. Mind She should have BOW T until dth stm She should have SPCT until mgc shd Saura should be equipped with: Tiara, Holy, H. Glove and Moon S. She should have ATK T until helfre, meanwhile she should have HOLY T until holy avg Since that Ashe will be always transformed into his dragon form, his equipment isn’t relevant because it doesn’t affect the dragon’s stats at all. He should have DRG T until ltg bst You should have 9 mana +1 and 8 mana +2 ( only 8 because you will find another mana +2 in the dungeon, so it’s useless to buy it ) and if you haven’t bought the gazelle already, do it now. The general strategy for each floor is covering the drawings with the party‘s members as soon as possible, because it’s on these drawings that the reinforcements continue to appear. Ground floor Enemies: Repten and Warskull (they’re enemies whom you’ve already met, so you should know how to kill them efficiently, however here below there’s the strategy to defeat them) How kill them: use ptc shd and use your best moves as dth storm and ltg blast. About reptens, wait they attack you if they’re near to you to avoid their crt move when you attack them, instead ashe can use his ltg blast without being worried about their crt. Save the magic attacks for later. At this point of the game, the Warskulls are easy to defeat but their magic can be damaging, so use mgc shd. Obviously both enemies mustn’t enter in the shields. What to do: don’t open the door but take the left way and go in the downstairs. First underground floor Enemies: Gespenst, Gale (even these they’re enemies whom you’ve already met) How to kill them: use ltg blast and light o kill the ghosts; it’s useless that rayko and hawk use their holy weapons since that there’re so few enemies here. About gale, if it’s invisible, use mgc eye and attack it normally. What to do: a rock can’t be moved because there’s a hole behind it, so use acd spi against the other one for two times, fly over the hole, kill the enemies with ltg blast and get the items. Items found: Wing 2, Soliton and heal+2 Wing 2: wearing this will enable you to be very active (ring) +3energy Soliton: you can have already this weapon buying it at battlum’s weapon shop ( for archers ) Back to the ground floor, open the central door and the treasure chest which will contain a mana +2. Now before of heading to the first underground floor again, Hawk should have the gazelle as weapon equipped and Rayko should have the D-knife. First underground floor second visit Enemies: Phantasy, Gespenst and Gale (you’ve met Phantasy too)To kill Phantasy, see the strategy above used for Gespenst What to do: use acd spi against the central rock, move aletha beyond the rock below and use mgc shield, then move hawk and use omega arrow to start at killing the enemies. Move vargaas and use ptc shield, then use the other characters to kill the remaining enemies. Items found: muramasa, trident and dualhand. All these weapons can be purchased at the battlum’s weapon shop. Reequip exorcism and Comet Second underground floor Enemies: Seele, Scaleus and Mach (other enemies whom you know already) What to do: you could use hell fre to kill instantly the monster with saura and vargaas, but it’s not necessary at all, since that it would be better to save mana for the second section of the floor and the last underground floor, so I strongly suggest you of using the general strategy (ptc + mgc shield + best fighters’ moves). However after killing the enemies following the first or the second method, open the door and let hawk on the square occupied by the left leaf so that he can kill the enemies without being hit and move the other member’s group on the zone opposed to the treasure on the left corner up and don’t try to open the door, because it can’t be opened yet. Wait all enemies are behind that door and kill them. Then move rayko toward the updoor, open it and all the other doors will be opened, now the party’s members should move on 3-4 squares above. Use finally the hell fre with saura. Kill the remaining enemies, occupy the symbols and take the items. Items found: g.shoes, d.fang and heal+2 g. shoes : wearing these, you will be able to move fast like light (ring) speed 30 up Third and the last underground floor Enemies: Paenite, Araxune and Paston ( a new enemy finally; this enemy will be also present in the next stages of the game ) What to do: unleash all your fury! ptc + mgc shd + best fighter’s moves and hell fre and heal the group when necessary and use hawk on paston to steal the death flame technique forashe. Repeat this procedure until that two characters occupy the two symbols located on the bottom of the floor. Then use ashe to get the items and kill enemies who guard at the other upstairs. Taking the upstairs you will gain access to the other section of the second underground floor. Items found: m.stone, mana+2, holy(shd), anty-m, magic.g, wise Anty-M: +104 def from the character’s value base, res 36up, armour for warriors Wise: +37 def from the characters value base, int 44up, helm for sorcerers, protection by the lunar power Second underground floor second visit Kill the enemies, open the treasure which contains mana+2 and take the upstairs. First underground third visit Kill the enemies, open the treasure which contains the item tiara and take the last upstairs Ground floor again Items found: astral, m.stone, critical and amulet Astral: the ultimate weapon for kord Critical: +177atk, hit critical 44%up, for archers Amulet: ring, I let to you the surprise of discovering its awesome effect Congratulations, you’ve got all the items of this dungeon, now you must “only” making your way back to reach the exit, but it will be not so difficult. Well, now you’re ready to enter into Quixotica. Stage: Quixotica What to do: there are two ways to face this stage. The first consists into using Ashe’s acid spit to move the rocks on the drawings to block the arrive of the reinforcements. The second way is to reaching the upper part of the stage as soon as possible. However either you’ve chosen the first or the second way, the method for killing the enemies is the same, the usual good method and take the items. Continue going up and you will face the next stage, instead touch one of the crystals and you will back to one of Mystaria’s forests. Items found: Demon, Mana +2, H-toga, Dazzling, Wing 2,Lucifer, Wise, and Holy-M. Stage: the Bane’s castle Aragon sees his mother and follow her, so your party has a less person What to do: person kill the enemies and take the items. Items found: Evil, Arc, Lune, and Anti-M Stage: fighting Ciresa What to do: make your way through the enemies and take the items before opening the door where behind it there’s Zereth who’s waiting you. The open the door and Zereth will transform into Ciresa, let Ashe take care of him and he will be defeated in a few turns. Items found:Mana+2, Demon, Mana+2, Spirit,Mana+2 Stage: Aragon and his mother What to do: follow exactly the movements of the Aragon’s mother and after short he will talk with her and you will get the following items: Astral, Earth, Desband Sword. Successively Aragon will reunite with the group Stage: fighting the four leaders. What to do: use your defensive shields, heal when necessary,use your best moves and the four leaders shouldn’t represent a problem. Stage: fighting the true Lord Bane What to do: use hell fre to kill at once most possible enemies. After killing all of them, face Lord Bane. He will not be difficult. Stage: fleeing from the castle. What to do: the terrain is collapsing, so you must kill asap the enemies who block your way and touch the crystal to go back to Mystaria. Stage: it’s turn of the other your heroes to battle What to do: kill the enemies and reach the fairy Stage The final battle What to do: use your best fighters but, you could be surprised hearing this, don’t transform Ashe into a dragon, do it only when he faces the boss, because if the enemies confuse him, he could kill one or more characters with one hit. There’s a good chance that he can become confuse. To fight the true boss of the game, you must first kill Ciresa, then you will can reach the other boss. Unleash all your fury, and after some turns also this boss will be defeated. Congratulations, you’ve finished the game.